Risk Virus Alert - WORM_SOBER.AG

As of November 21, 2005 2:20 PM Pacific Standard Time (PST, GMT -8:00), TrendLabs has declared a Medium Risk Virus Alert to control the spread of WORM_SOBER.AG. TrendLabs has received several infection reports indicating that this malware is spreading in the USA, Belgium, Canada, Brazil, and New Zealand.

This memory-resident worm propagates by attaching a copy of itself to an email message, which it sends to target recipients using its own Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (SMTP) engine. Since it's email propagation does not require any user intervention, the user is often unaware that this worm is sending out email messages.

The email it sends out has the following details:

From: {Email address generated by this worm}

Subject: (any of the following)
• hi,_ive_a_new_mail_address
• Mail delivery failed
• Registration Confirmation
• smtp mail failed
• Spam: Registration Confirmation
• Your Password
• Your IP was logged
• Paris_Hilton_&_Nicole_Richie
• You visit illegal websites

Message body: (any of the following)
hey its me, my old address dont work at time. i dont know why?!
in the last days ive got some mails. i' think thaz your mails but im not sure!
plz read and check ...
cyaaaaaaa

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This is an automatically generated Delivery Status Notification.

SMTP_Error []
I'm afraid I wasn't able to deliver your message.
This is a permanent error; I've given up. Sorry it didn't work out.
The full mail-text and header is attached

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Account and Password Information are attached!
***** Go to: http://www.{random}.com
***** Email: {random}.com

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Dear Sir/Madam,

we have logged your IP-address on more than 30 illegal Websites.
Important:
Please answer our questions!
The list of questions are attached.

Yours faithfully,
Steven Allison

*** Federal Bureau of Investigation -FBI-
*** 935 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW, Room 3220
*** Washington, DC 20535
*** phone: (202) 324-3000

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Account and Password Information are attached! ---

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Attachment: (any of the following)
• mailtext.zip
• mail.zip
• reg_pass.zip
• mail.zip
• reg_pass-data.zip
• question_list.zip
• list.zip
• downloadm
• mail_body.zip


The attached .ZIP file contains the copy of this worm using the following file name: File-packed_dataInfo.exe

When executed, it displays a fake error message box in order to trick a user into thinking that the file did not properly execute.

This worm searches the process list of the affected system for mrt.exe, the Microsoft Windows Malicious Software Removal Tool process. If found, it terminates the said process thus making the system more vulnerable to malicious attacks.


TrendLabs will be releasing the following EPS deliverables:

TMCM Outbreak Prevention Policy (Beta) - 187 (Released)
Official Pattern Release - 2.957.00 (ETA: 1.5 hrs)
Damage Cleanup Template - 678 (Being created)
Network Virus Wall - 10232 (Being created)

RSS - Share your website to others and get traffic

What is it ?

RSS is a family of XML file formats for Web syndication usually used by news sites and weblogs.
The abbreviation is used to refer to the following standards:

* Rich Site Summary (RSS 0.91)
* RDF Site Summary (RSS 0.9 and 1.0)
* Really Simple Syndication (RSS 2.0)

RSS technology allow internet users to subscribe to wesites that provide RSS feed, This way you can share
your websites content (news or weblogs) by providing a RSS feed link for your visitors.

How to create RSS ?

You don't have to learn XML to have RSS feed for your site, www.feedburner.com can create your RSS feed freely.
Just type in your sites URL then proceed to the next steps, and feedburner will provide a link to your RSS feed,
for example http://feeds.feedburner.com/yoursite_feed_name

Now put the feed URL onto your website

In order for visitors/newsreaders to subscribe your feed, you need to put HTML code on anywhere you like within your website page.

- Your RSS feed link :

<a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/yoursite_feed_name" alt="Subscribe to my feed">
<img src="http://www.feedburner.com/fb/images/pub/xml_button.gif"
border="0"></a>

- For NewsGator subscribers to add your feed to their list, add below code :

<a href="http://www.newsgator.com/ngs/subscriber/subext.aspx?url= http://feeds.feedburner.com/yoursite_feed_name">
<img runat="server" src="http://www.newsgator.com/images/ngsub1.gif" alt="Subscribe with NewsGator" border="0" /></a>

- For MyYahoo subscribers :

<a href="http://add.my.yahoo.com/rss?url=
http://feeds.feedburner.com/yoursite_feed_name">
<img src="http://static.flickr.com/25/64096106_8266cc5156.jpg?v=0"
alt="Subscribe with MyYahoo" border="0"></a>

- For MyMSN subscribers :

<a href="http://my.msn.com/addtomymsn.armx?id=rss&amp;ut=
http://feeds.feedburner.com/yoursite_feed_name&amp;
ru=http://your_site_url">
<img src="http://static.flickr.com/33/64096105_b1887c711f.jpg?v=0"
alt="Subscribe with MyMSN" border="0"></a></li>

- For Bloglines subscribers :

<a href="http://www.bloglines.com/sub/http://feeds.feedburner.com/
yoursite_feed_name">
<img src="http://static.flickr.com/34/64096103_69386ae9be.jpg?v=0"
alt="Subscribe with Bloglines" border="0"></a>

- For GoogleReader subscribers :

<a href="http://www.google.com/reader/preview/*/
feed/http://feeds.feedburner.com/yoursite_feed_name"> 
<img src="http://static.flickr.com/34/64096104_5d2a30e4dd.jpg?v=0"
alt="Subscribe to Google Reader" border="0"></a>

That's it and don't forget to change
http://feeds.feedburner.com/yoursite_feed_name and http://your_site_url to your URL, see example result of this code at Easy OnlineTips at the right side of the page.

Tips

You can increase your website traffic by submitting your feed to RSS Feed sites so readers will know that
your site exist, Below are 12 sites you can use to submit your feed free:

1. DMOZ.org
http://dmoz.org/add.html

2. Technorati.com
http://www.technorati.com/ping.html

3. BlogDigger.com
http://www.blogdigger.com/add.jsp

4. Syndic8.com
http://www.syndic8.com/suggest.php?Mode=data

5. Feedster.com
http://www.feedster.com/add.php

6. CompleteRSS.com
http://www.completerss.com/AddFeed.aspx

7. NewsIsFree.com
http://www.newsisfree.com/contact.php

8. NewsTrove.com
http://newstrove.com/suggest_site.html

9. Postami
http://www.postami.com/rss.finder/submit_feed.php

10. BlogDex.net
http://blogdex.net/add.asp

11. Daypop
http://www.daypop.com/info/submit.htm

12. Genecast.com
http://www.genecast.com/news/create.jsp

Reiki Tummo : Way for your health

WHAT IS REI KI ?

Rei Ki is an ancient natural healing method. It uses a very powerful, yet gentle energy that can easily be used by channeling. Channeling with Rei Ki is very easy - a practitioner needs only to be relaxed. While learning and channeling Rei Ki is very easy, Rei Ki gives wonderful results. Rei Ki works well for physical, emotional and mental problems.

BENEFITS

* Improve health
* Reduce stress and tensions
* Balance and amplify energy
* Heal different physical, emotional and mental problems.
* Enhance intuition and awareness
* Improve skin complexion & postpone ageing process
* Improve the quality of sleep
* Prevention of sickness at early stage
* Protection against negative influence
* Cure addiction on liquor, smoke, drug, etc.
* Materialization

Read More..

HTML : Make your site speaks

If you happend to be a beginner of creating website, then learn HTML..
A lot of resources on the net where you can learn to create your site easily.

Webmonkey.com
Step by step tutorial from simple HTML to advance HTML scripting.

W3schools.com
Learn HTML and try it yourself with preview screen.

Cooltext.com
Create your logo easily online !

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FREE service that gives you the power to design and download professional-quality, animated banner ads quickly and easily.

Get your Website Indexed by Google, Msn and Yahoo on Day 1 !!

In this article i'll be explaining a very simple method to get your new website indexed by Google, MSN, Yahoo, and all major search engines right away . You have just spent hours and hours creating a site with good content and a good looking page layout, but have no visitors to see it. In fact your site is no where to be found on any of the search engines, even if you type in the site's URL. An easy way to fix this problem is to join a webmaster forum, or ANY forum which will let you place your site's URL in your signature. Join a popular, high page ranked forum site and and go to your profile to create a signature. In your signature include your URL (in clickable form) and a short descrition of your site, being sure to use keywords that are important and relevant to your site. Try if possible to use your best keywords in the clickable URL. Keywords in the URL are considered much more important by the search engines than just standard text in the description. Your next step is to just START POSTING!! This is also helpful in link building, because each one of your posts will count as a link in the eyes of the search engine. By using this method, you can quickly and easily be indexed by all major search engines and are a step closer to getting a steady stream of traffic to your site. Learn more about strategies like this and other easy SEO methods at the site Improving Pagerank

About the Author

I have been a webmaster for over 10 years and has many successful and highly trafficed sites over the years. My new site Improving Pagerank has a list of over 200 pageranked FREE Directories from PR9 to PR4-organized by page rank. It also has many seo articles, high paying keyword lists,and SEO tools that will help you deterimine your pagerank,link popularity, and DMOZ listing.

Online Affiliate Scams Revealed

When selling affiliate products in your online store, avoid these common online affiliate scams. I lost a ton of money promoting useless non-paying affiliate programs until I found these guys. It's time to learn the truth about affiliate products and sales from someone who KNOWS the business!

If you want to sell products as an affiliate, where do you look? There are all kinds of affiliate programs to join on several major affiliate networks. There's likely to be lots of decent sales generating affiliate companies right?

Not true, according to Adam Fisher, the Affiliate Product Sourcing Editor for Net Worth Radio:

When you see all these "Incredible" affiliate companies and programs and products of affiliate networks on the internet, promising phenomenal sales and offering commissions ranging anywhere from 5% to 50% or more, what you're seeing is 99% junk.

There are thousands of scammers, snake oil salesmen and con artists on the Internet who are just lying around waiting to AMBUSH you when you begin looking for REAL affiliate programs to do business with. Believe it or not, there is a whole niche industry built up on the Net around this kind of scamming! The folks who run these scams have all the moral fiber of a box of hair, and the only reason they even recognize the word 'Scruples' is from the TV ad for the party game.

You may have even fallen prey to one of these con artists, selling you on their "exclusive" affiliate programs as if they are the greatest money-makers since the internet bubble burst. Me too. I've joined so many programs that I can't even recollect how many. I don't know why, but I tend to find the "good" in people, and I was "sold" by these marketing schemes time and time again, even after being scammed by the latest one. Finally, after so much disappointment and frustration, I had HAD ENOUGH. I decided to get to the bottom of this appeal we all have with online affiliate companies, and find out if there really were any PROFITABLE ones for selling "hot" affiliate goods at premium prices.

I literally contacted the administrator of every affiliate website I could find. Posing as an investor, I managed to persuade the owners that I was seriously interested in purchasing their entire website and business. That way, once the cartoonish bags of money flashed in their heads, they would grant me free access to their member's areas to examine what I would be "selling". Well, I was appalled with 99% of what I found. Many of the owners actually bragged about how many people joined their useless non-paying affiliate programs. I repeatedly found:

*outdated links

*non-working links

*links leading to other sites that wanted you to sell crap

*no help section

*no real email support

*few if any sales

I quickly realized that these so-called affiliate networks were totally pointless. And the owners knew it, yet they were laughing all the way to the ATM machine! Needless to say, I didn't respond when they asked if I was still interested in purchasing their websites. Surprisingly, while sitting through all of the scam artist's websites, I was able to locate a group of individuals that actually ran profitable and legitimate programs.

The owners were common folk like you and me that found a way to earn extra money working from home on their computers. Their membership areas were impressive, with a great deal of quality information on how to make $100-$200 per day on your computer doing very little work. I even chatted with a few of their affiliates in several online forums, and they confirmed that they were earning extra money using the information, support and products that the affiliate websites had provided them. It was like I found a few diamonds in the rough. But don't take my word for it, you can drop by the over one dozen sites I found. See what you think.

They DO NOT charge a minimal fee for access to their program, which is to be expected for any legitimate program that actually has people on staff who are dedicated to helping you get earning online. What a warm group of people! Anyway, if you do decide you are interested in any of the dozen companies, I advise you to join post-haste, as the owners have informed me that they are getting so many new affiliate members by word of mouth referrals, that they will be blocking off membership completely by month's end. (By the way, you didn't receive this news from me!) They don't have a large enough staff to welcome many more people, and they are driven to providing excellent service to each person. Well, my quest to find legitimate online affiliate programs has come to an end. I have to mention I was profoundly disappointed with most of what I found, and I strongly urge you not to take any chances doing business with any companies other than the twelve I will share with you.

Whatever you do, I hope you and your loves ones have a healthy, prosperous year.

Take care and I wish you all the best.

Are your Articles Creating an Avalanche of Traffic?

One of the most popular ways to market an online business is by writing web articles. Unfortunately because of this growing popularity, many webmasters are discovering that it is getting more difficult to get ezines and directories to publish their work. As a result, this hurts their web-traffic and ultimately their bottom-line.

So how can you ensure that your articles will reach the maximum amount of potential web visitors?

The s*cret is to market your articles like you would with every other facet of your online business. It is important to be proactive and build momentum on your articles. Below I list a few simple ways that you can do this:

Submit to Article Directories

The best place to initially submit your articles are to Article Directories. Since many publishers of websites, blogs, and ezines frequent these sites, your article will be quickly exposed to people who have a large amount of traffic.

Contact Article Lists

After submitting to article directories, you should then submit your work to article lists. If you are not familiar with them, article lists are newsletters on Yahoo and Topica that allow you to email your article directly to publishers of web content. When a submission comes from an article list, publishers are more inclined to trust the article and use the material.

Search through Ezine Directories

Once you have submitted your article to directories and mailing lists, you should then focus on contacting individual publishers. The first group you should contact are the publishers of ezines that are related to your topic. You can locate these individuals on ezine directory websites. Most of the time these sites will list contact information and whether the publisher accepts articles. Then all you have to do is email each one and ask them to publish your article.

Contact Individual Websites

Another great place to submit your articles are to the individual websites related to your topic. Since these sites focus on providing valuable information to their readers, you can easily persuade them publish your work. To avoid wasting a lot of unnecessary work, you should only contact sites where the readers would have an interest in the topic of your article.

Email Old Publishers

After writing a few articles, you will notice that they are used by many webmasters and ezine publishers. A great way to quickly get out a new article is to contact them and see if they want to publish your content. Usually these individuals are more likely to use your article, because they have already shown trust in your writing.

Give the Article to your Affiliates

If you run an affiliate-program, you can help your affiliates by giving them your articles as a way to help promote your site. When you contact your affiliates, let them know that they can substitute your link with theirs in the resource box of the article. That way, they are given a monetary incentive to use your web article.

Create an Article RSS Feed

If you have enough articles, you can create an RSS Feed that people can use for their website. Then every time you create an article, you post it on your RSS feed and the subscribing websites have new content for their visitors. By utilizing RSS feeds for article distribution, you can easily expose your article to thousands of potential website visitors.

Getting your article to the maximum amount of publishers is an important step to getting an avalanche of web-traffic. Instead of writing just one article and sitting back waiting for people to come, it is important to continuously market your web articles. If you make it a point to build on the work of each article, your daily website-traffic will steadily increase.

About the Author

Scott J. Patterson is a self-proclaimed Dunce, yet last month he earned $12,124 from one of his online businesses. To find out how YOU can do the same, download his fr*e ebook- The Secret-Guide to Home Businesses

5 Linking Strategies that Work

One of the most effective ways to promote your business online, especially if you use search engine optimization to build traffic, is linking.

However, as a certified Web CEO professional, and someone who also uses only "white hat" optimization strategies, I see people make a lot of mistakes when using this technique.

Below are some of the strategies that I use to make linking more effective, as well as raise my rankings in the search engines.

1. Do your homework first. You're probably wondering what "white hat" techniques are.

"White hat" techniques are techniques that will always work with the search engines, like writing articles, blogs, and press releases, and optimizing individual pages for the search engines.

These are the primary techniques I use in addition to linking because they work.

Just ask Tinu Abayomi-Paul, the owner of http://www.freetraffictip.com. Tinu is an expert when it comes to using search engines to build traffic to her sites.

She wrote me the other day to thank me for "inspiring her". I'm not sure exactly what that means, but I do know that she uses a lot of the same techniques I do to promote my sites. She now has over 90,000 relevant entries in Google, more than a lot of the top "gurus" on the internet.

The fact is, the more pages you have listed in the search engines, and the more links you have pointing back to your site, the more likely you are to be found.

Although writing articles, blogs, press releases, and optimizing pages definitely works, you still have to do your homework. This means actually doing a search in the search engines to find out how sites get to the top, i.e. what keywords they use, how their pages are optimized, etc.

I use Alexa, http://www.alexa.com, for this because it allows me to look at traffic stats, as well as see what sites are linked to eachother.

To get started, search for the keywords you are targeting. Take a good look at the sites at the top. This includes studying the keywords, titles, and descriptions they use in their headers. Also, read the text of the pages. It's not that hard to optimize your page(s). Just write search engine friendly content that repeats your keywords. Make your content easy for your readers to read and understand though.

Now this may sound juvenile, but again, it works. Tools like Keyword Density Analyzer, http://www.keyworddensityanalzyzer.com, and Web CEO, http://www.smallbusinesshowto.com/ht/search.html, can tell you if you are on the right track.

You can also read Linking Matters, http://www.linkingmatters.com. This short, and free ebook in PDF, will give you more tips on linking. 2. Link to complementary sites. I get link requests all the time, and I have to reject about half of them. The reason why is that I won't link to sites that have nothing to do with mine.

I offer small business, internet marketing, and search engine optimization and submission products and services. Links to quote sites, joke sites, and shoe sites don't fit with this.

The key here is to understand that not only does Google, the most important of all the search engines, look at how many links are pointing back to your site, but they also look at the relevance of the links.

Sites that are similar, or complementary to yours, give you more credibility and higher page rank than having tons of sites pointing back to you that have nothing to do with your site.

Make the links pointing back to your site relevant.

3. Choose relevant, highly searched for, low competition keywords for your anchor text. This tip relates to tip four. Before you start sending out link requests to other webmasters, make sure that you're targeting the right keywords. Not only are a lot of relevant links important, but your keywords should be keywords that will get you traffic.

4. Change your anchor text. Recently Google decided that links with the same text between your {{a href=""}} and {{/a}} text should be different. Too many links pointing back to your site that had the same text "looks" like spam. This doesn't mean it is spam, and sometimes, you don't have control over how others link back to your site.

However, if you decide to exchange links with others, vary your anchor text.

5. Try other alternatives to software. Although there are many software programs out there you can use to help you automate this process, I caution you to be careful when using this kind of software. Although it may speed things up for you, you may also end up with a lot of links pointing back to you that have no relevance. Also, these programs really won't help you as much as you think if you don't change your anchor text once in awhile.

If you do choose to use software to automate the process, make sure that you personalize your emails. Again, do your homework and make sure that you are actually sending out email to sites that complement yours. No one likes to receive emails that say "Dear Webmaster".

Using a directory script on your site can help you because others can visit your site and add their links. Just make sure that you check your directory once in awhile to see who is linking to you. Also, make sure that you set up your script in such a way that others have to have a link pointing back to you first before your script will accept their site.

Link Management Assistant
http://www.dirfile.com/link_management_assistant.htm

You can also find reciprocal link exchange sites like Link Metro, http://www.linkmetro.com. Sites like this will allow you to choose your partners, search for new partners, and exchange links without being bombarded with email or generic requests.

Regardless of how you develop a linking strategy for your site, you need to develop one if you want high rankings in the search engines.

About the Author

Jinger Jarrett is a writer and internet marketer living in Alpharetta, Georgia. She teaches search engine optimization strategies "for the rest of us". Get her best strategies, as well as a copy of her "Search Engine Secrets" ebook for free, when you visit her site at http://www.jingerjarrett.com